- •Macdonald
- •Lexical exercises
- •2 Answer the questions.
- •1 Read the text "All Starts in a Family" and say if the speaker is optimistic about family life. All starts in a family
- •2 Read the quotations connected with family life, translate them into Russian and say how you understand them. Say which of them you agree to and which are wrong in your opinion.
- •3 Act out a talk show on family problems. Choose the topic you are going to discuss and interview your groupmates.
- •1 Read the text and see whether your opinion coincides with that of the author on all the points a word from an old grumbler
- •2 Discuss the following questions.
- •1 Read the dialogue and do the assignments following it: clean up your room
- •2 Say in what way the girl thinks her generation differs from that of her parents. Is she right?
- •2 Read the confession of the boy and say if you have to deal with the same problem.
- •Lexical exercises
- •2 Read the facts about smoking, think over and say:
- •The cigarette fact-file
- •1 Read the extract and answer the questions below. Alcohol
- •2 Debate the major points of the text either in pairs or in teams.
- •1 Read the extract and note down the examples, showing the effect of drugs on a human being. What social problems do the drugs cause? drugs
- •2 Decide whether the statements are true or false:
- •Crisis fact-file
- •1 Read the extract and discuss the questions below.
- •1 Read the text and say if juvenile delinquency is a vital topic in your country. Juvenile delinquency
- •2 Complete the following statements.
- •1 Read the text and try to explain the meanings of the underlined words
- •2 What do you think is an incentive for not committing crimes? Do you think the fear of an inevitable punishment to be the main reason holding people off the crimes?
- •3 How should such offenders as Cheryl be treated?
- •Lexical exercises
- •1 Here is some information about unemployment in Britain. Decide what you think about the following project to help young people.
- •2 Do you think the type of the scheme offered in the 1980s in Britain would work nowadays? Is it possible to apply the scheme in this country?
- •3 What organizations are able to help young people out of work? Are there any in your country?
- •1 Read the text and do the exercises that follow it she’s not leaving home
- •2 Answer the questions on the text.
- •2 Answer the questions.
- •3 Circle the right answer.
- •4 Ask a personnel officer how to behave at an interview and what questions are usually asked.
- •1 Read the conversation among the members of the delegations from the uk and the usa and be ready to take part in a dispute of your own while receiving delegations of the kind here in Gomel.
- •It is never to late too learn
- •1 Meeting English – speaking friends
- •2 Choose one of the topics offered below or you might as well combine them:
- •Contents
2 Discuss the following questions.
1 Do you agree that nowadays young people are more than often accelerate in their physical development but keep behind in mental aspect? Why?
2 Do you think it is possible to learn on other people’s mistakes? Why do we make the same mistakes generation by generation?
3 What do you think of the so-called “eternal values”? Can they really be unchangeable?
4 Would you like to be put to the three temptations mentioned in the letter? How do they usually change people? Would they change you? In what way?
TEXT 5
1 Read the dialogue and do the assignments following it: clean up your room
(After Art Buchwald)
(You don't really feel the generation gap in this country until a son or daughter comes home from college for Christmas. This dialogue is probably taking place all over America this week.)
— Nancy, you've been home from college for three days now. Why don't you clean up your room?
— We don't have to clean up our room at college, Mother.
— That's very nice and I'm happy you're going to such a free-willing institution. But while you are in the house I would like you to clean up your room.
— What difference does it make? It's my room.
— I know, dear. And it really doesn't mean so much to me. But your father is much afraid of the plague. He said this morning if it's going to start anywhere in this country, it's going to start in your room.
— Mother, you people aren't interested in anything really important. Do you realize how big corporations are polluting our environment?
— Your father and I are very much worried about it. But now we are more concerned with the pollution in your bedroom. You haven't made your bed since you came home.
— I never make it at the college.
— Of course you don't and I'm sure the time you save goes toward your education. But we still have that old-fashioned ideas about making beds in the morning and we can't give them up. And since you are at home for such a short time, why don't you do it to please us?
— Oh, Mother, I'm quite grown-up! Why do you have to treat me like a child?
— We are not treating you like a child. But it's difficult for us to realize you're an adult when you throw all your clothes on the floor.
— I haven't thrown all my clothes on the floor. Only those I wore yesterday.
— I'm sorry I exaggerated. Well, how about the dirty dishes on your desk? Are you collecting them for a science project?
— Mother, you don't understand us. You people were brought up to have clean rooms. But our generation doesn't care about things like that.
— No one respects education more than your father and I do, particularly at the prices they are charging. But we can't see how living in dirt can improve your mind.
— All right, all right. I'll clean up my room if it means that much to you. But I want you to know you've ruined my vacation.
— It was a risk I had to take. Oh, by the way, I know it's a terrible thing to ask you, but would you mind helping me to wash the dinner dishes?
— Wash dishes? Nobody washes dishes at college.
— Your father and I were afraid of that.
a free-willing institution – заведение, где можно делать все, что хочется.
plague – чума; to pollute the environment – загрязнять окружающую среду,
exaggerate – преувеличивать